2004 - 2005 Grantee Directory - California

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, VPICU
Chris Baker
4650 Sunset Blvd. M.S. #12
Los Angeles, CA, 90027
Ph: 323-669-5408 Fax: 323-671-3877
http://www.vpicu.org Email: cbaker@chla.usc.edu

Network Partners: Five community based hospitals are connected to Childrens Hospital - Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center; Huntington Hospital Medical Center; Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center; Northridge Hospital Medical Center and Ventura County Medical Center.

Project Purpose: The VPICU Critical Care Telemedicine Program uses telehealth technology to provide clinical consultation to five community hospitals, which currently send their pediatric patients to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) for quaternary care services. These consultations provide in depth telemedicine clinical assessments, triage and transfer service. At each site in the network, sophisticated telemedicine units are in place and provide virtual examination capabilities and instantaneous high quality audio, video and data communication to facilitate care.

Outcomes Expected: Provide life saving medical consultation when most needed for children in current underserved areas - OAT GPRA Performance Measures tool. Enable children who do no require sophisticated medical care at quaternary care centers to remain in their communities - Patient/Provider Satisfaction survey. Decrease expense and reduce load on health care resources such as the transport system and tertiary care facilities - review of tracking database and transport costs. Assure accurate triage decisions and assure more rapid response for children who truly need transport - regularly scheduled peer review and QI partner network meeting.

Service Area: Sites located in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties in Southern California that service underserved counties north - (Inyo, Kern) and multiple underserved locations within Los Angeles County.

Services Provided: Core service - real time clinical consultation for critically ill children. Expansion services include teleconference educational offerings for clinicians, families and business associated with program.

Equipment: Multiple base videoconferencing stations strategically placed at CHLA connecting to custom remote site carts engineered by Stryker Communications Corp. designed to move easily through patient treatment areas with extensive medical peripherals for pediatric care and assessment.

Transmission: T1 lines routed through gatekeeper allowing multipoint conferencing. CALIFORNIA Northern California Telemedicine Network Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital

Project Purpose: Improve and expand access to (a) specialty medical services for patients, (b) provider and patient distance education programs and (c) utilization of video-conferencing system for non-clinical applications (i.e. administrative meetings, etc).

Outcomes Expected: Patients have greater access to specialty medical care / NCTN Telemedicine Specialty Clinic Log. Fewer long distance trips for patients seeking specialty care / Telemedicine Specialty Clinic Log. Providers have improved access to CME distance ed. programs / Non-Clinical Use of System Log Patients have improved access to educational programs / NCTN Non-Clinical Use of System Log. Increased use of video-conferencing system for non-clinical applications / NCTN Non-Clinical Use of System Log. Service Area: 5 counties in Northern California (Del Norte, Sonoma, Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt).

Services Provided: Specialty Medical Clinics: Behavioral Health; Dermatology; Endocrinology; Diabetes Management, Gynecology; Rheumatology; Otolaryngology, Pediatric Cardiology. Future Possible Services: Pain Management; Colposcopy. Distance Education: Health education programs for patients. CME and CEU programs for providers. Network Start Date: September 2000.

Equipment: 7 PolyCom FX video-conferencing systems; 1PolyCom Viewstation video-conferencing system; 1 Tandberg 880 video-conferencing unit; 2 Zydacron PC based telemedicine systems.

Transmission: T1 and ISDN line transmission.

UC Davis Health System
Jana Katz
Center for Health and Technology, UC Davis
Ph: 916-734-5675 2300 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95817
Fax: 916-734-1366 Email: jana.katz@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu http://cht.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Network Partners: All spoke sites are hospital based home health/hospice programs. Colusa Regional Medical Center, Mayers Memorial Hospital, Lassen Community Hospital, Eastern Plumas District Hospital.

Project Purpose: To establish rural sites as hubs with spokes of their own that extend to community providers to improve health care access and communication for chronically ill, homebound, and geriatric patients and those living in rural institutional settings through the provision of telehealth home care.

Outcomes Expected: The outcome of this project is to establish telehealth home care in rural communities, which will improve access to home health care for homebound patients, extend the boundaries to which home health care is provided in rural areas and improve patient monitoring through home health care.

Service Area: Northern California.

Services Provided: Telehealth Home Care Store and Forward Wound Care Distance Education

Equipment: Telehealth Home Care-American Telecare Home Health Units Store and Forward-Second Opinion Software and Digital Camera Distance Education-Polycom and Tandberg videoconferencing units

Transmission: DSL, POTS (home health/hospice) ISDN/IP (Distance Education)